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Fished Abernant and caught 1 trout of 1 1/4 lb in very good condition and 1 grayling of 1 1/2 lb on trotting gear. Only fished for under 3 hours as it was so cold and rod rings just kept freezing up which made it very difficult to trott. It was -5 when I started and -3 when i finished. I will be back as soon as it gets above freezing.

River was in lovely condition but I could not seem to get amongst the grayling.

Two rods.... Minus 4-5 all day long. Frost layered upon frost on the tree branches. Deep fished nymphs all day. Not a sausage to either of us. beautiful beat.

Trotting single maggot, 14 x grayling to 19 inches. Nothing until 2 in the afternoon when I found a shoal, after which they took steadily until the sun went down and freezing rod rings stopped play.

The 19 inch fish was number 8 and gave a very good account of itself in a heavy current. Wonderful looking grayling - it had definite presence while it was kiting back and forth below me and contested every inch of line! Oddly enough, I had another 19 inch fish in a shoal from the same stance on the same beat 3 winters ago, fly fishing that time - I remember telling Seth about it. Usually I don't get anything from that spot, which is in any case a bit hazardous to get to, but those are my two best grayling..

Happy Christmas to everybody at the Foundation.

My first ever session on the stretch. Walked the whole length of the North bank, fishing all of the pikey looking slacks. Had 3 low doubles all to whole herring. Some very pikey looking swims on the south bank and can't wait to get back and give them a go.

An experimental kind of day, two rods out, one trotting and one heavy nymphing: 4 x grayling 15 - 16 inches, 1 x out of season brown trout 17 inches. The coldest day yet, minus 5 when we started, so the trotting rod in particular with its small rings was constantly freezing up. The fish came in the last hour before dark, shoaled up tight on the bottom in deep turbulent water and all to the trotting method - it just didn't seem possible to get down there with the fly rod, however much tungsten used. Note, another large Irfon brownie, again a hen in excellent condition - no sign of having spawned that I could see.

Very cold day with frost and snow on the banks. Fishing hard with only one small pike landed in the morning.

2 x Chub (both around 1.5 lb) on luncheon meat. Thanks

1 rod caught 1 brown trout 12" on goldhead GRHE. 2nd rod caught 3 grayling 10'', 12" and 14" on pink shrimp or orange tagged goldhead GRHE

A most enjoyable day - the sun even showed its head in late pm! Season's Greetings to all at WUF office!

Freezing cold day with snow on the bank. River low & clear and didn't fancy my chances. Had a nice pike of 23-12 at 10.00am on whole herring which turned out to be the same fish I had 200yds upstream a fortnight ago. This one must be on WUF'S payroll. Pulled out of another at midday and that was it for the day.

10 x grayling to 16.5 inches with the trotting rod. While the snow fell on Eastern England, we just had a desperately cold day in central Wales, mainly due to the biting easterly wind - I can't remember feeling so cold, particularly the hand trying to control the reel. Rod rings icing up all day, except for an hour between 2 and 3 in the afternoon, so difficult to trot. Also a new experience - meshes of net freezing to back of wading jacket. However, some grayling were still ready to play, plus there was a white knuckle half hour in the morning after a large cock salmon, very dark and diseased by now, picked up the single maggot. After I failed to tail him he eventually got below me into Stone Catch where I couldn't follow and the tiny hook straightened.